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I am setting up a 125g in my dining room. I like single species tanks and would like to find something small with which to fill the tank. What is a good small fish which occupies all water levels?
Guppies or mollies will not do. Their movements are too chaotic. I have considered pup-fish, but pup-fish only stay on the bottom of the tank.
Thank you,
-Shay
superjohnny
12-28-2002, 12:40 PM
Maybe some different barbs? They come in lots of different colors and are pretty cool. Angelfish are also pretty cool. I always thought it would be cool to get like 50-60 neon tetras and just watch them school. You could fit a lot of neons in 125 gallons :D
jbcwilli
12-28-2002, 12:50 PM
A large school of rummy nose tetras would look wonderful in a large planted tank.
Datnioides!
Of course your feeding bill will be expensive, they're predatory fish :)
Datnioides are very cool, but larger than I wanted.
Barbs would be a good but expensive choice, but I would only choose one type/color. Rummy nose would make a nice tank, but I just got rid of a large school along with my angels. Black skirt tetras are another fish I have considered, although I'm not sure if they will occupy all water levels.
Will any tetras breed easily? This would be a nice way to fill the tank. I have lots of fw experience, but have never tried tetra breeding.
-Shay
dwayne
12-30-2002, 1:25 PM
Zebra Danios! Mine go all over the tank, except the very bottom. Get about 50 Zebras and maybe 20 cories!! Sweet!!
If not zebras, I saw these really cool tetras at the store last week, they were glowing.... actually I think that's what they were called glowlights? Their heads were glowing, very cool!
Although I still think a school of maybe 100 neon tetras would be WAY cool!
blee358
12-30-2002, 2:00 PM
I'd go with a huge school of giant danios! They don't get big, max out at around 4" and are very active. You could easily fit in at least 1-2 dozen!
wetmanNY
12-30-2002, 2:08 PM
Spend your cash on several pieces of wood that you can lash together into a big open pile. Get as many plants as you can afford, some floating plants like Water Sprite. And plenty of Java Moss that you poke into openings.
Then get about a dozen White Cloud Mountain Minnows with the money you saved by not buying a heater. Sit back and let them colonize the aquarium.
Giant danios would be cool if they didn't hang too much at the top of the tank. This is how they behaved when I had them in a community tank. Are they better behaved when kept only with their own kind? I really like the idea.
I wouldn't keep corries and zebra danios together because they are from different habitats and because I only like to keep one species of fish in a tank.
-Shay
wetmanNY,
Good to hear from you. You gave me advice on setting up a Texas cichlid tank a few years ago (They're swimming happily behind me right now.)
The whiteclouds sound like a good idea because they will breed. I've got a store near my house which gets in some unusual varieties occasionally. I've got plenty of soaked cedar which after years in a tank will sink without weights, I've also got some wild Texas swords which will grow in the cool water and spread very slowly like a grass if the lighting isn't too bright.
Hell, I could even go cool water Native with shiners in a setup like that.
http://www.ndis.nrel.colostate.edu/escop/photos/fish/IMG0022.JPG
And maybe break my one species rule just a little bit with a small school of pupfish.
http://helios.bto.ed.ac.uk/bto/desertecology/pupfish.jpg
The pupfish are brackinsh in the textbook, but are abundant in the fresh water here in Houston.
-Shay